Our Puppies cost between $2500 – $3000 for AKC Limited Registration (This means pet only/without breeding rights)

We do not allow puppy visits until after they have had their 8 week vaccinations with our veterinarian.

Our puppies are almost always reserved in advance, so it is unlikely we will have vaccinated puppies available for you to meet and choose from.

We accept deposits to reserve puppies after you have seen photos and videos of them! 

This is for the puppy’s safety, and our family’s safety. 

Unfortunately, in this day and age, there are bigger risks to allowing people into our homes as breeders. There have been sad occurrences of people posing as puppy buyers to “scope out” a home, adult dogs, or litters, for the reason of coming back for theft, or even for harm. 

There is also the safety of our young puppies and nursing mothers to consider. Puppies have extremely delicate immune systems. Diseases like Parvo or Distemper can be devastating and lethal to a litter of unvaccinated puppies. 

As much as our dogs would LOVE to meet you, please understand that these are the precautions that we feel we need to take in order to keep our adult dogs, puppies, and our family safe. 

You will be allowed to come to our home, at a scheduled time and date, when your puppy is ready for pickup. This will be sometime between 8-12 weeks of age. 

We hope this does not cause any offense, we recognize that most people are GOOD and we LOVE our HonorRae Families. We just must take precautions. This is for the health and safety of your future puppy as well! 

We LOVE to share updates of your puppy with you however, and will share many pictures, videos, and can schedule weekly FaceTime calls as well for you to virtually “visit” your new family member. We are also very active on social media, so you can keep up with what your puppy is up to on our platforms as well! 😊

Visit the “Our Process” page to learn more about how to reserve your puppy! But the simple steps are these:

• Application
• Signing Contract
• Place $200 deposit
• Be placed on waiting list, or choose from available listed puppies on our website!

I’m glad you asked! 😊 

Please visit our “Why choose an HonorRae Shih Tzu Puppy?” Page for all that we provide with your new puppy, and all that we do for our dogs, our puppies, and our program in general. 

We take this puppy raising gig very seriously, and we want our puppies to get the best start in life, and have wonderful long lives with their new families. 

Raising dogs in a responsible, loving, and ethical way is quite costly, and very time consuming. Here at HonorRae Shih Tzu, we go above and beyond in the care for our animals. This is why our prices are what they are. We want to be able to to run our program in the best way possible for our beloved dogs, and for our future families who will bring one of our dogs into their homes and into their lives! 

Currently we could have a variation of reds, golds, sables, blacks, Brindles, or parti colored puppies (like black and white or red and white etc) We are hoping to add another stud next year that will be able to give us liver (chocolate) puppies! 

I accept Cash, Venmo, or payment through Good Dog. Please be aware that Good Dog charges extra fees. So if the puppy is purchased through that site, the pricing will be slightly higher. 

I do not accept checks, or money orders.

Final payment at puppy pick up we strongly prefer in cash. 

A non-refundable $200.00 deposit is needed as soon as your application has been approved for you to:

• be added to the waiting list
• or to reserve an available puppy listed on our website.

*This deposit DOES go towards your final purchase price of your puppy!

Once your puppy that you have reserved is 4 weeks old, 1/3 of your total balance on the puppy will be due. So if your puppy was $3000 total and you already put down your $200 deposit, then $800 more would be due, for a total of $1000, by the time your puppy is 4 weeks old. 

The remaining balance of your puppy is either due at pick up (for which we prefer cash) OR, if you are getting your puppy transported with a flight nanny, it is due through Venmo, or another approved payment method, 2 weeks prior to your puppy being delivered. (This will usually be around 6-8 weeks old depending on how long your puppy is staying with me.) 

We are honored to give a $200.00 discount to: 

• Returning HonorRae Shih Tzu families! We LOVE when our families want to add a 2nd, 3rd, maybe even a 4th HonorRae Shih Tzu to their family! 😆 Great families mean the world to us. 
• Active Duty and Retired Military Veterans. We thank you for your sacrifice and service to our country. ❤️

• If you change your mind and do not want to get a puppy from us at all after you have put down a deposit, it is non refundable. 
• If you change your mind about a specific puppy and the puppy is under 6 weeks of age, then we can talk about transferring your deposit to different available puppy, or to a future litter, but the decision must be made within the next 2 litters or the deposit will be forfeited entirely. 
• If you are on the waiting list for a specific pup, example – a female – you will remain on the waiting list until a female is born and you are the next in line. If you do not want the female that is offered at your turn, you will remain on the list until the next female is born and the current one will be offered to the next person waiting on the list. 

Puppies are usually ready to go to their new homes beteen 8 and 10 weeks of age. Typically closer to 8 unless the puppy is very small. 

I do not deliver puppies myself usually, as I typically just have too much to take care of at home to take too many long distance trips. 

I do have someone who would likely be willing to be a puppy driving or flight nanny if needed, but this will come with additional costs that she would charge for her time and mileage. 

100% absolutely. Forever breeder support. If you have a question or concern, I am here. If you just want to send me fun updates, PLEASE do, you will never bother me with pictures or videos or updates of your HonorRae pup! I LOVE updates! 

If a scenario comes up where you cannot keep your HonorRae Shih Tzu, I will always take them back. No questions asked unless you want to share. I cannot give refunds for this, but they will always have a place to come back to if needed.

*Please do not take them to a shelter, ever. This is also in my contract. 

All puppies will have an AKC Limited Registration. This means pet only, no breeding rights. Registrations will be sent to the buyer after proof of spay/neuter has been received.